Starchart – sketchbooks

by maggie

I’ve been so filled with enthusiasm for this new thing that I’ve been filling up note and sketch books like no tomorrow. It’s a good job then I can’t resist buying them so they’ll be lying around when I need them. Here are a few bits and pieces : lots of different lines of attack. Clicky click to make pictures bigger.

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tiny book in b/w, altered found images and lots of white line

white and gold lino ink: lots of texture… add liness later

ink stamps on black: are squares related? Can you get black paper for printing?

constellation?

join the dots, fill the sky

a very poor lino print (too cold I think

a little book of stained papers, some populated nebula?

everything has to be decided starting from the proportion s and size of the plate

possible ways to take starchiest forward, in to detail maps of locales

collage elements this time in colour

poor plates, much abused, most recently by sugar lift, more to come no doubt

a relief print of a plant with starchart type annotations

another plank, different scribble… can you see what it is yet

vinyl relief print on slightly textured paper

sometimes things don’t have to make sense

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